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iainpj.bsky.social
@iainpj.bsky.social
Chicago resident, rapidly aging
The considered opinion of the people in my Milton course was that we had a course with interesting content being taught very badly. The guy clearly loved his subject, but probably shouldn't have been teaching it. He somehow made Milton boring.
January 31, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Major in political science, with concentrations in western political philosophy and also United States' East Asia policy.
January 31, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The latter two intended specifically as a workaround for the university's onerous Western Civ requirement, which typically involved reading about 1000 pages per week. The instructor managing the course treated it like it was the only one you were taking.
January 31, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Satirical, I should say, rather than comedy. His takedowns of United Healthcare are both funny, pointed and savage.
January 30, 2026 at 12:59 AM
For some reason, what popped into my head is that scene from a cartoon where Daffy Duck is about to say something that will get his beak blown off (again), Bugs looks at him and just says, "Yes?" and Daffy backs away at speed on his tippy toes. For some reason.
January 26, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Pinstripes! Pinstripes and fedora! (and less hair).
January 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Basically Jack Reacher has sex with The Law Enforcement Officer Du Livre as a break for the author exhausted by choreographing constant violence. Whereas a Regency duke has a full bare-knuckle boxing scene as a break for the author who really cannot think of one more synonym for penis.
January 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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To wit:
December 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The other thing to note is, unless someone tells the vendors what's happening, they'll likely never know that Amazon is siphoning traffic from their site. And they'll have to keep checking Amazon to see if their items are there.

Impressively insidious evil, really.
December 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Otherwise, what's likely to happen is that an individual vendor will say, "Hey, stop that", Amazon will stop ... and the next time their AI gathers data, they'll get caught up again. (Yes, Amazon could put an exception in, but why would they? Persistence can eventually yield surrender, after all.)
December 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM